Re: POT: Here we go again


"Richard Burke" <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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| In article <47c6100f$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
| "Annie C" <chernow2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
|
| > Richard, could you explain to us why you think that is? Couldn't locate
| > your earlier post Mique's referring to. Thanks.
|
| Well, it's not the *only* problem, but in a nutshell what I said was
| that the guys who compile the sound for TV (that's the director,
| producer and dubbing mixer) do their work in a perfectly sound-proofed
| room, with top-of-the-range speakers - the kind of kit that costs many
| tens of thousands to install. And they think that because *they* can
| hear it perfectly, the viewers at home will be able to. And they're
| simply wrong. Two reasons:
|
| a) Maybe 0.01% of people at home have the kind of audio kit that take in
| and process that high bandwidth of sound. For the rest of us it's all
| compressed into an incomprehensible mash.

Our sound is not hooked up to separate speakers and just comes from the tv
itself. So this explains a lot.
|
| b) The guys doing the audio mixing might take a day or even three to
| produce the finished sound for a one hour show. So they are incredibly
| familiar with what's being, they play it over and over. Then they assume
| that because *they* know what's being said, *we* will too - on first
| hearing, in a shashy environment, with the sound all compressed - and
| with someone else saying something else immediately afterward which we
| *also* struggle to comprehend.

That explanation makes a lot of sense...
And it seems to fit with how difficult it can sometimes be to copyedit the
written word, whether or own or someone else's. By the second or third time
through, it all seems so familiar that it becomes increasingly easy to miss
things.

|
| Basically, most audio is produced by people who refuse to listen to it
| the same way their viewers will. Personally, I always insist on
| check-backs through a domestic TV system. Most people don't. Drives me
| nuts.
|
| But I do think that TV these days presents a British-Australian-South
| African-North American language that is much less homoegenous than it
| used to be. Accents and dialects are used that would previously have
| been rejected. Gone are the days of BBC English. These days we are all
| expected to be equally fluent in Harlem ghetto slang, broad Glaswegian,
| Bantu pidgin English - and everything in between. And oddly enough,
| we're not.

More and more often, however, I've noticed that some tv programs are
starting to use actual subtitiles to help with the understanding of certain
dialects or accents. Wish more would do that. But it's a good sign.

Thanks, Richard!

Annie
|
| Richard
|
| ____
| Richard Burke
| <www.richardburke.co.uk>


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